Thursday, August 18, 2005

Revitalizing Psychiatry’s Methodologies

Solution-Focused therapy:
Help for the clients to develop specific skills for adjustment to multiple losses and changes within their environment through individual and group therapy.

State-of-the-art Psychopharmacology:
Safe and effective treatment of mental illnesses by focusing on psychopharmacological issues from the perspectives of age and age-related disease effects on particular organ systems, taking into account possible drug interactions.

Group Counseling:
- Address interpersonal relationships within a group setting, emphasizing communication of the resident’s needs and the understanding of the needs of others. Supportive therapy is also carried out in a group setting, which teaches residents self-reliance and coping techniques in a day-to-day situations.
- Introduce specific methodology within a group setting, thus allowing the adjustment skills to develop through the experience of peers.
- Memory Enhancement Program
- Progressive Relaxation and Mediation Techniques
- Stress Reduction, Coping Skills, Training Worry Control

Individual Counseling:
- Provide supportive therapy and grief management in a one-on-one confidential setting.
- Aid verbalization of feelings and suppressed emotions through the individual therapy approach.

Family System Approach:
- Meet with family members to allow them to understand the nature of resident’s problems, as well as reassure the availability of professional support and supervision of medications prescribed.
- Provide an opportunity for catharsis and ventilation in a secure and confidential, therapeutic environment

Furher information and help is available at the Center of Revitalizing Psychiatry – New Jersey Mental Health

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